Hebrews 11:31

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.

Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.

Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son?

After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”

My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.

saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.”

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,

The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.